Fortigate - Central NAT vs Policy NAT

In this video we jump into the world of central NAT. If your coming from Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint et al this might be a really familiar idea for you. If not, this is going to a primer video that will get you talking "central NAT" in no time flat.

Config Commands used in the video:

1) #Enable central NAT
conf sys settings
set central-nat enable
end

Key Take Aways:
1) Central NAT pulls the NAT configuration out of the firewall policy and creates a new menu item/table of all your NAT rules.
2) Keep in mind, this is for SOURCE NAT (SNAT) only; we are not talking about DESTINATION NAT (DNAT aka VIP)
3) Central NAT is not the default setting for Fortigate; you must enable it via the CLI using the command referenced above. Then refresh your interface and look up "Policy and Objects" to find "Central NAT"

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